Amazon's Starlink Rival Completes First Launch of Its Satellite Internet Network
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- Oct 07, 2023
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Project Kuiper is Amazon's endeavor to beam internet service from orbit.
Amazon has successfully launched the first test satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband satellite network.
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Amazon has completed its long-delayed first launch of satellites for Project Kuiper, the company's planned orbital internet network.
A pair of test satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 2 p.m. ET Friday, as shown by launch footage that ULA posted on X (formerly Twitter). If all goes well, the satellites will be deployed at an altitude of 311 miles above the ground and remain in low Earth orbit for testing.
The two satellites are prototypes of the eventual 3,200-plus broadband satellite constellation Amazon
plans to build and deploy over the next six years.
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Project Kuiper is Amazon's plan to build out a new service category to rival Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet from SpaceX, which already has thousands of satellites in orbit providing internet to over a million customers in multiple countries. Amazon CEO Andy Jassey has said the Kuiper satellite service will be a core part of the business going forward.
While the original plan, set last October, was for Kuiper's initial launch to be on ULA's newest Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, which uses engines built by Blue Origin (a company helmed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos), it was instead mounted on an Atlas V rocket. ULA's next launch is set to be the first with the Vulcan rocket.
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